Course Syllabus

Physics 2213 1/23/10 Spring 2010

Week Date Day Topic Subtopics Y & F 12th ed. HW Labs/Exams

Chapter.section(s)
1 Jan 26 T Electric Force Electric charge, Coulomb's Law 21.1-3 NO LAB
Jan 28 R & Electric Field Electric fields & Superposition 21.4,7
2 Feb 2 T Calculating electric fields 21.5 NO LAB
Feb 4 R Electric field lines & Gauss' Law 21.6; 22.1-3 + Handout 1
3 Feb 9 T Gauss' Law apps. & conductors 22.4,5 + Handout #1: Electrostatics
Feb 11 R Electric Current Electric current, voltage, resistivity 25.1,2 + Handout 2
4 Feb 16 T & DC Circuits Resistance, EMF, & circuits 25.3,4 #2: Oscilloscope
Feb 18 R Basic DC Circuits 25.5; 26.1 3
5 Feb 23 T More DC Circuits 26.2,5 #3: DC Circuits
Feb 25 R Electric PE Electric Potential & PE 23.1-4 (,5) 4
6 Mar 2 T Capacitance Capacitance & Electric energy 24.1,3,4 (,5) (5) NO LAB
Mar 4 R RC Circuits 24.2; 26.4
Mar 4 R 7:30 - 9 PM HWs #1-5; Labs #1-3 21-23, 25, 26 PRELIM #1
7 Mar 9 T Magnetic Force Magnetic fields & forces 27.1-5 #4: Capacitance
Mar 11 R & Magnetic Field Magnetic forces on currents 27.6,7 (,8,9) 6
8 Mar 16 T Biot-Savart Law 28.1-5 #5: Magnetic
Mar 18 R Ampere's Law 28.6,7 (,8) 7 Fields
Mar 23 T SPRING
Mar 25 R BREAK
9 Mar 30 T Magnetic Faraday's Law 29.1-3 NO LAB (M,T)
Apr 1 R Induction More Magnetic Induction 29.4,5 (,6) 8 #6: Magnetic (W-F)
10 Apr 6 T Inductance Inductance & Magnetic energy 30.1-3 (9) Induction (M,T)
Apr 8 R LR & LC(R) Circuits 30.4-6 NO LAB (W-F)
Apr 8 R 7:30 - 9 PM HWs #6-9; Labs #4-6 24, 27-29 PRELIM #2
11 Apr 13 T AC Circuits AC Circuits & Resonance 31.1-3 (,4),5 (,6) NO LAB
Apr 15 R EM Waves Electromagnetic waves 29.7; 32.1,2 (,3,4) 10
12 Apr 20 T Thermal Physics Temperature & Kinetic Theory 17.1-3; 18.1-3 #7: Inductance
Apr 22 R Heat transfer & Phase change 17.5,6 (,7) 11
13 Apr 27 T 1st Law of Thermodynamics 18.4; 19.1-4,6 #8: Calorimetry
Apr 29 R Heat engines & refrigerators 19.5,7,8; 20.1-3 12
14 May 4 T 2nd Law of Thermodynamics 20.4-7 NO LAB
May 6 R Energy quality & availability Handout 13

May 10 M (14)

May 11 T STUDY WEEK

May 12 W
May 14 F 9-11:30 AM HWs #9-14; Labs #7,8 + rev. 29.7, 30-32,17-20 + rev. FINAL EXAM

NOTE: This syllabus is subject to change. Updates will be made at lecture.